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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

I ripped this fullscale from a post at the White Wolf forums. If someone objects to this, please let me know, and I'll remove it. I just wanted to show others exactly the things that mess up a roleplaying game, plus the things players can come up with.. ^_^

Okay, this is a bitch topic so if you don't wanna here someonebitching, go somewhere else.

You guys might remember my earlier post about "Fred". He was the powergamer who was trying to use Incomparable Sentinal Stance to turnhimself invisible for an hour. Well, after reading your posts, the STwent ahead and told Fred he couldn't do that anymore. Fred pouted fora bit and then intentionally killed his character because, "The STruined my character concept." So, he decided to make a new one. Iwasn't there when he was making his new character, and I highly regretthat now.

I get there to the game and find that Fred is playing an Eclipse casteSolar. "Whoa?! A social character?" I'm thinking, "Awesome..." I peekat his stats and see they're all in physical attributes. "Oh well..."

This game session as we were travelling through the Wyld, we cameacross this ancient infernal site that we were looking for to get anartifact. We ended up battling this massive demon/wyld-mutatedmammoth-spirit. Now, before the battle starts the ST grins. "Okayguys... I'm just gonna warn you now, this will be a pretty difficultfight, so I apologize in advance if anyone gets smacked. This willprolly be one of the hardest fights you've ever been in."

Fred's character busts out a grand dakliave and then he says, "Okay,I'm spending the 6 motes to transform my weapon."

Huh?

As it turns out, Fred has a 5 dot artifact that can, for 5 motes,transform from a normal Grand Daklaive into a Warstrider GrandDaklaive.

"Hold it!" I say, pausing the game. "You realize that you need astrength of FOURTEEN to wield it? Maybe if you were playing a Lunar orsomething..."

He just smiles.

"Wait up... you have a 14 strength?"

He explains:

He's got 6 points in strength (thanks to the Legendary Attributemerit), plus an additional two from the Wyld-Affliction "Tough" for atotal of 8. Then, it turns out that somehow the ST let him start withsome Spirit charms, including Largess (why the heck the ST okayed thiscrap is beyond me), which let him add an extra 2 points to hisstrength for a total of 10. Then Strength Increasing Prana gives him 4more for a total of 14.

I stare blankly, but what can I say? It's legit... so I kind of stoppaying attention to what's going on.

We roll initiative and, of course, he goes first (thanks to that +18on initiative from his weapon).

He busts some combo and swings his sword at the monster. The ST justsmiles and I'm thinking, "Awesome, he's got something planned."

ST says "Go ahead.. it doesn't dodge. It's got a decent soak of 40 anda ton of health levels. Like I said, this will be the hardest battleyou guys have ever been in."